Gary M. Hieftje is Distinguished Professor and Mann Chair of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research interests include the investigation of basic mechanisms in atomic emission, absorption, fluorescence and mass spectrometric analysis, and the development of methods for atomic, molecular, and biomolecular analysis. He is interested also in the on-line computer control of chemical instrumentation and experiments, the use of time-resolved luminescence processes for analysis, the application of information theory to analytical chemistry, analytical mass spectrometry, near-infrared reflectance analysis, and the use of stochastic processes to extract basic and kinetic chemical information. He was co-chairman of the 1979 Analytical Summer Symposium on Lasers in Analytical Chemistry, chairman of the 1982 Gordon Research Conference on Analytical Chemistry, and General Chairman of the 1987 Analytical Summer Symposium on Biotechnology. He has served on the instrumentation advisory panel and editorial board of Analytical Chemistry. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Spectrochimica Acta, Part B, Analytical Sciences, the Analytical Scientist, and Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis. In 1983, he was the co-recipient of an IR-100 Award. In 1984, he was the recipient of the Meggers Award, the Lester W. Strock Award, and the Anachem Award. In 1985 he received the American Chemical Society Chemical Instrumentation Award, and in 1986 both the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award and the Theophilus Redwood Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also chairman (1985-86) of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society. In 1987 he received the American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry sponsored by the Fisher Scientific Company and the Tracy M. Sonneborn Teacher-Scholar Award from Indiana University. He was then also elected to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1988 he received a second R&D 100 Award. In 1989 he won the Award in Spectrochemical Analysis from the Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society and was co-recipient with one of his students of an award to recognize the best paper of 1988 published in the journal Spectrochimica Acta, Part B. In 1991, he served as President of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and received the gold medal of the Quality Control Academy of the Upjohn Company. In 1992, he was given the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry and was awarded a second Lester Strock Medal. In 1993, he was elected by students at Indiana University to Honorary Membership in the Golden Key National Honor Society and was the recipient of the 1993 Distinguished Faculty Award from the College of Arts and Sciences alumni of Indiana University. In 1996, he was elected as the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists and received the Meggers Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. In 1998, he received the ACS-Analytical Division Award for Excellence in Teaching and was awarded Honorary Membership in the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in 1999. From 1999-2000, he served as Director of the newly established Linda and Jack Gill Center for Instrumentation and Measurement Science at Indiana University and was the first holder of an endowed Gill Chair. In 2000, he was appointed to the Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry. He was the 2000-2001 Indiana Academy of Science Speaker of the Year, the recipient of the 2001 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award and the 2002 Trustees Teaching Award at Indiana University. In 2004, Hieftje won the Gold Medal Award from the New York section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and presented the Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture at Indiana University. In the same year, he received the Monie A.Ferst Award from Sigma Xi and was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2005 and in 2007 received the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale Award. He was presented with the Maurice Hasler Award from the Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition in 2009 and the Robert Boyle Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010. In 2011, he became a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and in the same year won another R&D 100 award to recognize the top 100 technological developments of the year. In 2012, Hieftje was given the Distinguished Service Award from the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry and the Ralph and Helen Oesper Award from the University of Cincinnati. He received the 2013 Ron Hites Award for Outstanding Original Research from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and in 2014 was presented the Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry. Hieftje has presented roughly 30 named lectureships at domestic and international universities and hundreds of invited lectures at major conferences. He is the author of over 600 scientific publications, 13 books, 15 chapters, and holds 21 patents. To date, 70 students have received doctorates under his direction; many others have received M.S. degrees, and scores of undergraduates and visiting scientists have performed research in his laboratories
